Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1918 — CURE FOR LITTLE AILMENTS [ARTICLE]

CURE FOR LITTLE AILMENTS

Real Trouble Can Usually Be Depended On to Make One Forgot the Smaller Ones. Man and animals alike, .It’s wonderful what a shock will do to heal our errors and our weaknesses. The only thing that ever stopped Uncle Bill in an argument was a dishpan, or some heavy, blunt Instrument clouted over his brow, and in his younger days he was some argufier, as his scars attest. . Here is the case of the blind man in San Rafael, Cal., who fell 40 feet off the roof of his house, and found his eyesight restored; Aunt Ellen, who was bedridden for years, was the first person to reach safety when the house caught fire, and her bad hip has been practically all right ever since; you remember that crippled negro who beat even the dogs home when the bear charged out of the brush. A lot of us have troubles that are only in our minds; when we are fed a little real trouble we forget the smaller ones. There is, perhaps, an opening for a sanitarium that will take a cripple or an invalid and throw him off a cliff, or crack him over the head with a brick or a crowbar —anything to wake him up, make him forget his small worries, and heal his diseased mind.